Yu Lin
Chinese-American plasma physicist
Yu Lin is a Chinese and American space plasma physicist whose research involves the computational simulation of the Earth's magnetosphere and its tail, the ionosphere, and phenomena within them including magnetic reconnection, Alfvén waves, the effects of daylight, and their temperature gradients. She is Alumni Professor of Physics at Auburn University.
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